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The Future of News

Here at Newsphere, we are trying our best to improve how we all consume the news. The trend has already been for news consumption to shift from physical newspapers to online mediums. Yet, with that has come extensive sharing of fake or misleading articles, often on platforms like Facebook. This is especially relevant during elections, when the truth about candidates can often make or break their hopes of winning an election.

We are hoping that as we continue to make iterations on our Newsphere website, we'll be able to provide contextualized stories that capture the range of events leading up to the specific story you're researching. We believe news headlines are only as good as the context that is provided for them, which is why we're really passionate about the timeline we've created. It was originally in a horizontal format, however we are currently testing it out as a vertical timeline. Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated as we're still editing the layout of the site.

We're looking forward to hearing more feedback as we continue to make changes to the site!

Happy reading,

The Newsphere Team

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I'm excited to announce that we've taken on some new team members, and have really improved both the front and backend! When choosing which news sources to pull from, we decided to use AP News, as we believed their reputation as a relatively non-biased news agency would be important for building our model. We're also introducing a new feature to the Newsphere which we're calling the timeline, which enables users to view all articles within a particular edge within a certain period of time. By zooming in and out of this timeline, users can decide what level at which they want to view each edge.

My name is Brandon Musto and I joined the Newsphere team in the beginning of September, 2019. As a student at Brandeis University studying business and history, I have always had a fascination with how both areas intersect. When I first joined the team, I was amazed with Newsphere and it’s potential to revolutionize the way we consume news. A big part of making Newsphere work as best as possible is understanding what the market is and who would benefit the most from our website, which I hope to help with over the course of the next few months.

If you're particularly interested in Newsphere and the work going on behind the scenes, we welcome you to join us on Slack. We actively use Slack to solicit feedback and converse with users in a much more intimate way than what is possible via email. Our goal is to foster a strong community of individuals who care about the news and how it is delivered. We believe a great way to build this is via conversations and story telling.

If you're interested in joining us, you can continue the conversation on Slack at the following link:
https://join.slack.com/t/newspherecommunity/shared_invite/zt-dsce98hg-ZutLhjMB8kpmzfEK2lI3yg